Monday, December 6, 2010

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Second time in recent memory that I’ve used a Raymond Carver reference
as a post title, plus this one gets double points for Murakami. Should I
be lucky enough to win the Blog Douchebag Awards, presented every March
by a committee chaired by John Gruber and the entire staff of
boingboing.net, I would donate the prize money to Tumblr, home for a
whole new generation of Blog Douchebags, Assholes, and the like.

I think I have a pretty good chance of winning, because even the blog
posts which appear to contain no references to Raymond Carver or
Haruki Murakami are, in fact, chock-a-block with allusions to Thomas
Pynchon, The Recognitions, David Foster Wallace’s unpublished
correspondence with Don DeLillo, and seasons 1-4 of Barney Miller,
before Detective Fish retired.

Below is an email I received today from a student:

Hi Jon!

I saw your photo in the internet - a running Jon!
You looked really funny~

And here is the photo that was attached.

So, when we talk about my running in a teacher’s sports meet, this is
what we’re talking about.